Gawker's Fox Mole Swipes a Book Deal

Memoir titled 'An Atheist in the Foxhole'

Surprise, surprise: Former no-name Joe Muto, who first became a web sensation when he debuted as Gawker's anonymous
Fox Mole, has reportedly snagged a book deal.

Muto, a former associate producer for Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Show, didn't last long as Gawker's elite, home-page columnist, dubbed the 'Fox Mole.' In fact, Muto only managed to have a couple of short blogs recounting juice from his time at Fox News such as Sean Hannity's interviewing methods and O'Reilly's bathroom habits. The powers that be at Fox News "dug up" the mole after just days, promptly firing Muto. After procuring a search warrant for several items in his apartment on suspicions of grand larceny, petit larceny and computer tampering, Fox is still exploring legal options for prosecuting Muto.

Don't feel sorry for Muto for one second — aside from becoming somewhat of a hero among the liberal media community, he'll earn a six-figure profit from Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing, for his memoir, tentatively titled An Atheist in the Foxhole.

Gawkerreports that a press release on the deal-signing states, "AN ATHEIST IN THE FOXHOLE describes how Muto, an NPR-listening,
Obama-loving liberal, took a job at Fox News expecting he'd only stay
for a few months. But eight years later he was still there, working as a
producer for Bill O'Reilly, a man with 'fair and balanced' views that
made Muto cringe on a daily basis."The book will allegedly be written in a format similar to How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, accented by a sardonic tone similar to that of David Sedaris and Dave Barry. It's set to be published in early 2013.